Industrial Automation as a Service: A New Application to Industry 4.0

Authors

  • Michel de Mattos Fernandes São Paulo State University (Unesp)
  • Jeferson André Bigheti National Service for Industrial Learning (SENAI) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6611-3671
  • Ricardo Pasquati Pontarolli Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP)
  • Eduardo Paciencia Godoy São Paulo State University (UNESP) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3375-096X

Keywords:

OpenPLC, Service Oriented Architecture, Moleculer Framework, Industrial Internet of Things

Abstract

The fourth industrial revolution aims to achieve greater productivity, also seeking to improve the quality and efficiency of production processes. For this, the use of information and automation technologies together becomes indispensable. Collaborative automation through the sharing and use of services has been a recent paradigm in the quest to obtain a distributed, flexible and integrated on network architecture. In this article, the development of control and automation applications as a service using a Microservices Oriented Architecture is investigated. The architecture is elaborated using the Moleculer framework, which simplifies the development of microservices and applications that make up the Microservice Oriented Architecture used in this work. The development and evaluation of several services are presented, such as Data Acquisition (DAQ), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and PID Controller (PIDPlus). The experimental results in different scenarios demonstrated the feasibility of implementing control and automation applications as a service. A relevant advantage that this type of architecture provides is interoperability through automatic network communication between applications and microservices, which is required for Industry 4.0.

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Author Biographies

Michel de Mattos Fernandes, São Paulo State University (Unesp)

Michel de Mattos Fernandes received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Marilia - UNIMAR (SP) (2015) and the M.S. in Electrical Engineering at São Paulo State University (Unesp) - Bauru (SP). He is currently an Industrial Electrician Designer with research interests in automation and supervision of industrial systems, Internet of Things, embedded electronics and Industry 4.0. http://lattes.cnpq.br/8481523580238627.

Jeferson André Bigheti, National Service for Industrial Learning (SENAI)

Jeferson André Bigheti received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Systems in 1990, the Academic specialization in Mechatronic Engineering in 2007 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2011 and 2020, all from the São Paulo State University (Unesp) at Bauru (SP-Brazil). Currently he is a professor of the National Service for Industrial Learning (SENAI) at Lençóis Paulista (SP-Brazil). His research interests include automation, supervision of industrial systems, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. http://lattes.cnpq.br/6243932250481498.

Ricardo Pasquati Pontarolli, Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP)

Ricardo Pasquati Pontarolli received the B.Tech. degree in Industrial Automation from Technology College, São Paulo State, Brazil, in 2011. He is currently studying M.S. in Electrical Engineering at São Paulo State University (Unesp) and laboratory technician in industrial automation at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP) in Boituva (SP-Brazil). His research interests include industrial automation, supervision of industrial systems, Internet of things, embedded electronics, Industry 4.0, and Security mechanisms. http://lattes.cnpq.br/6917700616010402.

Eduardo Paciencia Godoy, São Paulo State University (UNESP)

Eduardo Paciencia Godoy received the B.Eng. degree in Control and Automation Engineering at Itajubá Federal University (MG-Brazil) in 2003 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at University of São Paulo at São Carlos (SP-Brazil) in 2007 and 2011, respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor of the São Paulo State University (Unesp) at Sorocaba (SP-Brazil). His research interests include industrial networks and automation, networked control systems (NCS), wireless networks and telemetry, embedded electronics, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. http://lattes.cnpq.br/0072632067545698.

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Published

2021-05-26

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Fernandes, M. de M., Bigheti, J. A., Pontarolli, R. P., & Godoy, E. P. (2021). Industrial Automation as a Service: A New Application to Industry 4.0. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 19(12), 2046–2053. Retrieved from https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/5070

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Vol. 19 No. 12 (2021): Ordinary Issue

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